Notice Me, Jameson Hart

By: Christopher J. Brice

Narrated by: Jamie Clyborne

The youngest in a set of triplets, Kevin Pryor is used to his brothers being the ones in the spotlight.

The names on everybody's lips. The ones people think of when they hear, "The Pryor Boys." And though it stings at times, Kevin finds solace hiding in the wings, crafting elaborate musical numbers in his head.

But nobody prepared Kevin for what happens when someone decides to change the script at the eleventh hour.

Jameson Hart—the boy with the golden hair—does the unthinkable by wishing Kevin a happy birthday, and suddenly, all of his carefully choreographed invisibility unravels.

As their paths continue to cross over the course of one unforgettable summer, it becomes impossible for Kevin to ignore the truth any longer. He doesn't want to be friends with the most popular boy at school. He wants to be so much more.

But in order to make that happen, Kevin will have to decide if love is worth finally taking center stage.

Notice Me, Jameson Hart is a young adult friends-to-boyfriends gay romance with a guaranteed HEA.

Contains mature content. A complete list of content warnings can be found on the author's website.

©2026 Christopher J. Brice (P)2026 Podium Audio

A lot of teenage anx

So this book started off great and then slowed down quite a bit and the main character, Kevin just seemed to mess up everything in his family. He was shopping and found out a secret, he told the secret to two additional people outside of his family and when the secret was exposed, it was his fault so many people knew.
There were many occasions of bad planning by the characters…hey why don’t I tell my brother a secret that I know he will not be happy about on a boat so there is no way for him to get some space.
I really wanted to like this book more than I did. I am not sure I would recommend it. There are better teenage first love stories available to readers and listeners.

5 ⭐️

🎧 Jamie Clyborne’s narration was absolutely brilliant. The emotion, warmth, and delivery added so much depth to an already beautiful story. I genuinely got emotional during the climax because the performance hit that perfectly.

Christopher J. Brice captured the magic of summertime, first love, and that terrifying uncertainty of being a high school senior so well. It felt bright and full of color and possibility while still carrying the vulnerability of learning to step into the light and take up space.

Such a sweet, heartfelt story about taking a risk and realizing maybe the world won’t end after all — and maybe you’ll even thrive because of it. I loved this from start to finish.

Can Two Tropes Fall in Love? Who Cares?

I decided to read Notice Me since it was one of those rare genre MM books written by a male author. I also thought I’d give it a go because its page on the Audible app contained category descriptors like "Literature & Fiction," "Contemporary," "Difficult Situations," and "Dating & Sex," as well as "LGBTQ+."

Actually, there was no dating and no sex and the difficult situation was a confection created to give the plot some drama, but it was toothless.

The category not listed was YA. That was a significant oversight—one that would have prompted me to take a deeper look at the reviews beforehand.

This is a YA book, and unfortunately, it isn't very well written. I’m not going to summarize the plot points since other reviews cover that and you can easily look it up yourself. Instead, I'll focus on this particular book as a product of someone's writing craft.

The defining characteristic of this book is its reliance on tropes. You’ve heard of paint-by-numbers? This is write-by-tropes. Every main and secondary character is a textbook representative of an overused trope in these genres. Everything they say is identical to what countless other character tropes have said in hundreds of other YA novels.

Nothing is explained with any depth—if it’s explained at all. Nearly everything is surface-level fiddle-faddle. As the main characters move through the story, they react as if they have no history or underlying motivations. Every conversation and action exists solely to serve the immediate moment, completely disregarding what was established earlier.

When you hear words of wisdom from famed authors, screenwriters, or directors, they often cite the golden rule: "Show, don't tell." But not here. In this book, nearly everything we learn comes from the main character telling us what he knows about people and events. We don't get to see the action play out before us, which would have made for a much better reading experience.

In stories like Heartstopper or Something Like Summer, we watch the main characters interact as real human beings who like each other, falling in love before our eyes. Here, we are simply told that they love each other—or whatever it is they feel.

It all became so tedious.